Commodities Corner

Bitter Harvest

Ethnic strife threatens Ivory Coast cocoa crop

NEARLY A YEAR AFTER CIVIL WAR broke out in Ivory Coast, and six weeks since the war was officially declared at an end, a question mark still hangs over the future of the cocoa industry in the world's largest producing nation.

A failed coup last September left hundreds dead and over a million displaced, including hundreds of thousands of immigrant agricultural workers, traditionally the backbone of the labor force. The success of the...